Higher Covid-19 vaccination rates are associated with protection against children experiencing symptomatic asthma, according to the findings of a newstudy. The researchers reported that for every increase of 10 percentage points in the coverage of Covid-19 vaccination, the prevalence of pediatric asthma symptoms decreased by 0.36 percentage points.
In 2020, healthcare providers and researchers observed that social distancing measures helped prevent children with asthma from being hospitalized or rushed to the emergency department. A year later in 2021, people had access to Covid-19 vaccines and they were widely administered to children and adults across the United States. Davis and colleagues conducted the study to investigate if the vaccines could be linked to some form of protection against symptomatic asthma.